HireZeta vs greytHR Recruit
greytHR is a widely used Indian payroll and HR platform with a Recruit add-on. HireZeta is a hiring OS first. The choice comes down to whether hiring is a side feature of your payroll tool or a team's daily workspace.
Facts about greytHR were read on greythr.com/pricing in September 2026. Prices marked approx. come from third-party listings. Tell us if something is out of date: support@hirezeta.io.
At a glance
| Feature | HireZeta | greytHR Recruit |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | By database size with recruiter seats included, on request; interviewers free, no login | ₹2,500 per recruiter per month add-on, on top of a greytHR plan |
| Requires HRMS | No | Yes, an add-on to greytHR |
| Who needs a seat | Included in every plan for recruiters and hiring managers. Interviewers are invited by email, free and unlimited, with no login | Per recruiter |
| Free trial | 14 days, every feature, no card | 7-day trial |
| Data residency | AWS Mumbai. Isolated per organisation, exportable any time | India |
| Resume parsing | AI credits on every plan (500 to 10,000 a month; 1 per resume parse) | Included |
| Email-in per role | An address per role and per organisation, included | Not listed |
| Reports | Funnel, time to hire, sources, recruiter throughput, CSV | Basic recruitment reports |
| HRMS | HRMS on the same record: the hire becomes the employee, with onboarding, shifts, attendance, leave, letters and payslips | Full HRMS and payroll today |
greytHR pricing: greytHR plans from ₹2,495 per month for up to 50 employees, plus per-employee charges; Recruit add-on listed at ₹2,500 per recruiter per month.
Where greytHR is stronger
- Mature payroll and statutory compliance, used by tens of thousands of Indian companies
- Recruit is a one-line add-on if you already pay for greytHR
- Extensive academy and community
Best for: Small and mid-size companies on greytHR payroll who hire occasionally.
Where HireZeta is stronger
- Recruiter seats included in the plan, everyone else free
- Pipeline with SLAs, match scores and a Today briefing
- Email-in for every role
- Boolean search ranked against the role
- Interview scorecards with nudges
What you get on day one.
One board per role, match scores on every card, SLAs in red, interviews booked from the card with a Meet link, offers and joining documents on the same record.
- Import your existing database in an afternoon
- Interviewers free, no login needed
- Data in Mumbai, GST invoice, INR pricing
Twelve modules. One login. Nothing bolted on.
Most teams run hiring across a job board, a spreadsheet, a calendar, a mailbox and a chat group. HireZeta replaces the lot, and each part knows about the others.
Questions
- Can HireZeta replace greytHR?
- For hiring, yes. HireZeta HRMS also covers attendance, leave and monthly payslips with PF, ESI, professional tax and TDS. It calculates TDS under the 2026-27 rules (new or old regime, with declarations) and hands employees their Form 130, the new Form 16, but it does not file TDS, PF or ESI returns; if greytHR files those for you, keep it for that and export joiners as CSV.
Try HireZeta on your next role.
Fourteen days free, every feature, no card. Import your existing database in an afternoon.
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